- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Chuck Tanner
- Date of Original:
- 1929/2011
- Subject:
- Baseball--Georgia--Atlanta
Baseball managers--Georgia--Atlanta
Baseball players--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team)
Baseball uniforms--Georgia--Atlanta
Athletes--Georgia--Atlanta
Professional athletes--Georgia--Atlanta
Tanner, Chuck - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Chuck Tanner, Atlanta Braves manager from 1986 to 1988, promised Atlanta a world championship, but his Braves teams finished last and next to last. When the Braves fired him in May 1988, the team had won twelve games, lost twenty-seven, was in last place, and already out of contention for the division title.
Photograph of Atlanta Braves manager Chuck Tanner posing in his Atlanta Braves uniform. He stands in front of a white wall and faces forward.
Tanner, a native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, had two different baseball careers in Atlanta, Georgia in two distinct eras. From 1951 to 1954 he was one of the best players on the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association. In the late 1980s Tanner managed some of the worst teams in the history of the Atlanta Braves. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/sports-outdoor-recreation/chuck-tanner-1929-2011/m-2612/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Atlanta National Baseball Club, Inc. Copyright 2002. All Rights Reserved
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/sports-outdoor-recreation/chuck-tanner-b-1929
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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